Borrowed a twin jet over the wknd...

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It was fucking sick :D

Used it along with a mesa 412 loaded with v30s.

Only downside is that now i want a bogner!!! :doh:
 
Twin Jet was the one amp I had, sold, had again, sold again, and then finally realized I was an idiot twice in my amp owning life.

Finally got another one - thanks to a very cool cat here on the forum - and it's been my No.1 go to amp for quite some time.

It's a very awesome amp. Killer tones. Killer flexibility. I mean, shit man, that thing even cops some seriously badass bluesy breakup style tones no problemo. Just that nice, thick, rich, crumbling overdrive that makes ya wanna play blues scales for 4 hours straight in 4/4 timing :lol: :LOL:
 
It's a serious amp, much more versatile than many give it credit for. The gain channel is just crushing, probably some of the most aggressive, thick, and destructive distortion I've ever heard.
 
Yeah, LEIB10's Twin Jet was a joy to play! Makes me want to get one now that my Rev Blue is gone. :cry:
 
Yeah, it's a killer amp for sure. It records like a champ, too.
 
Does the Mesa cab with v30s do it justice by the way? Or should I have been running something else?
 
Stealthtastic":285xkbcx said:
Does the Mesa cab with v30s do it justice by the way? Or should I have been running something else?
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If you don't have an UberKab, the Mesa's a good alternative IMHO.
 
Uncle Mo, I know you have a 20th XTC,
How does the twin jet compare, if it does..?

Thanks :rock:
 
Ventura":10d3k6y8 said:
Stealthtastic":10d3k6y8 said:
Does the Mesa cab with v30s do it justice by the way? Or should I have been running something else?
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If you don't have an UberKab, the Mesa's a good alternative IMHO.
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Good to hear. :D
 
My Twin Jet sounded pretty sweet with SLOGriff's Soldano cab loaded with Eminence speakers. The Uberkab is where it's at, generally speaking.
 
I own a Mesa traditional cab with an uberkab Xpatt. With the twin jet!? The uberkab is definitely the way to go! It's just perfect match!! :rock:
 
GtarLover":vjn7gghe said:
Uncle Mo, I know you have a 20th XTC,
How does the twin jet compare, if it does..?

Thanks :rock:
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It doesn't really compare other than the fact it's got lots of that juicy Bogner tone.

The 20thA is outrageously awesome, we all know it's a 3 channel multi-mode head, yada yada yada. It goes the distance, very versatile. And retains a lot of that chewy, grinding, mid-heavy grunt in the gainier zones.

The TwinJet is different. I've owned both stock and my current PurpleMod. The stock offered 2 channels, I'd say they're both more abrupt and open. More immediate. The 1st channel had a mod that could taper the gain down to get a clean out of it, the Purple Mod tapered the gain "up" to make it more hot-rodded. So, in my case, 2 channels of dirt/OD/gain. But to compare the two, it's going to come down to the fact that Ch.2 on the TwinJet is brutal in a very good way. It's got incredible thickness to it, gobs of hot gain, loads of clarity, and I'm talking insane amounts of lowend thunder. It really is the most potent lowend thump I've heard out of a high-gain head. It's nuts. The tone - compared to the XTC - is more modern in these higher gain arenas. It's more cutting, sharp and clear. The XTC is warm sounding, the TwinJet is more bold.

I could go on, but it's a hard thing to describe even though they are totally and completely 2 different heads offering very different things. What's interesting though is that the XTC can do high gain stuff no problem, and the TJ can do moderate bluesy smokey style licks no problem. So versatility is up there too. But where the TJ slays is in the aggressive department - and I might add - there's no fizz, ever, when it's mic'd. And I've actually heard this from other TJ and Uber owners as well - piece of cake to mic up, no fizz. It's got sizzle - for sure - but no fizz.

Does this help??
 
Stealthtastic":10f64jui said:
What's the purple mod? Someone local do it?
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No. It's a factory mod. To be honest, I had to research it myself which led to a call to Bogner HQ directly.

The TJ offered a more common mod, the "Clean Taper" mod on channel 1. Basically allowing it to get a clean tone with the gain knocked back, but all the otherwise available crunch once the gain knob turned the other way. The "Purple Mod" is done, like the clean taper mod, in house at Bogner. They put more zing in the first channel, and it's no longer clean-able whatsoever, but it gets into its own high-gain, modded Marshall'esque territory with more grunt and spunk than the stock TJ, which is by no means a slouch in its own right. The "Purple Mod" makes the TwinJet an amp with two high-gain channels with different voicings, they also swap out the blue power-LED for a purple one.

Having owned both, I'm loving the Purple. It's incredible.
 
That's pretty cool and it sounds very appealing. I would definitely take two flavours of high gain over a clean channel anyday.

Plus purple things are always sexy
 
Stealthtastic":26xk2po7 said:
That's pretty cool and it sounds very appealing. I would definitely take two flavours of high gain over a clean channel anyday.

Plus purple things are always sexy
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Stealthtastic":26xk2po7 said:
That's pretty cool and it sounds very appealing. I would definitely take two flavours of high gain over a clean channel anyday.

Plus purple things are always sexy
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Ya, purple's actually one of my fave colours.

Seeing as I typically prefer to let the amp do the talking rather than jam dirt/overdrive/boosts down the amp's throat, I dig "built in" grind and dirt, know what I mean? I'm not that guy that needs a clean channel with gobs of headroom in order to throw stomps at it. So for me, having an amp's natural OD is way more appealing. What's cool about the PurpleMod is that the 2 channels sound very different from one another. The 1st channel is all plexi right through to that 80s hair metal SLO style of gain and more. It does it in spades, with a Bogner tone to it. Then channel 2 comes along and annihilates practically everything else. Super forceful mids, nuclear bottom end, and "thick" as hell. Not so much compressed, just very very full and "thick". I love it.

Like I said, missed it the day I sold it, glad to have it back, and it's been my main amp for the last couple weeks of home playing and noodling while I pack my house and life up.
 
Hey Mo,

Thanks for the info. The purple mod sounds like a pretty exciting possibility.
I have a 20th, as well as many other heads, and was simply wondering what the Twin Jet might offer.

I will have to look into it. Thanks again :rock:
 
GtarLover":xkpafs7h said:
Hey Mo,

Thanks for the info. The purple mod sounds like a pretty exciting possibility.
I have a 20th, as well as many other heads, and was simply wondering what the Twin Jet might offer.

I will have to look into it. Thanks again :rock:
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My pleasure man.

The XTC is like a masterful artist's brush on most canvasses of music...

The TwinJet is...

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